It's not every day that you walk into a room to find yourself standing face-to-face with a skinned cadaver. It's the kind of thing that can change your whole day . . . or your whole life.
"My, what lidless eyes you have," was one of the many thoughts flying through my mind -- followed by, "Thank goodness I skipped lunch today!" And, of course, "To think that all our life comes down to just bags of guts and bones like this . . ."
There is no way to react mildly to "Jintai no Fushigi Ten (Mysteries of the Human Body)," an exhibition of preserved limbs, lungs, veins, brains and, yes, entire corpses in various poses, currently on at the Yokohama Sambo Hall.